World Without End - No Man's Sky

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World Without End - Creating a full-scale digital cosmos

 

The universe is being built in an old two-story building, in the town of Guildford, half an hour by train from London. About a dozen people are working on it. They sit at computer terminals in three rows on the building s first floor and, primarily by manipulating lines of code, they make mathematical rules that will determine the age and arrangement of virtual stars, the clustering of asteroid belts and moons and planets, the physics of gravity, the arc of orbits, the density and composition of atmospheres—rain, clear skies, overcast. Planets in the universe will be the size of real planets, and they will be separated from one another by light-years of digital space. A small fraction of them will support complex life. Because the designers are building their universe by establishing its laws of nature, rather than by hand-crafting its details, much about it remains unknown, even to them. They are scheduled to finish at the end of this year; at that time, they will invite millions of people to explore their creation, as a video game, packaged under the title No Man’s Sky.

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Source and more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian

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Setting realistic expectations for myself, but still thoroughly excited. Sony will push this hard so I hope if the games good that means good marketing (I know it's MP, but in the console world at least heavily Sony promoted).

 

65daysofstatic doing the soundtrack as well  :woot:

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  On 23/05/2015 at 12:44, earthworm jimmy said:

Long but interesting read..

No idea if such ambitions project will work in real life and be interesting and bug free.

Pretty crazy.

 

Yep, but will wait for the version on PC that's already been confirmed to be coming. Would be awesome to be able to mod this.

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This is a day one purchase for me.  I haven't been more excited about a game in years and I'll happily pay $60 for it.  My only problem is deciding if I should pick it up on gog.com or get the physical disc for the PS4.  I do wish it was cheaper, not because it's not worth $60 but if it were $30 then I wouldn't have a conflict on where to buy it... I'd go ahead and pick it up on both! As it is I'm not paying $120 to get it on both though so a decision needs to be made.

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